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35 weeks dialtion/ muscus plug/belly droppin help plez!!!!!

ok i jus turned 35 weeks today and i wanna know when do they start checkin to see if you are dialtin i went thursday and the jus swabed me to see if idnt have an inffection down there some women get that they have to give you medicine through the iv and also when do you or can you loose your musuc plug and like can you tell when your dialatin or your cerivix is thinning out ohh yea i go every week now also can it be that you may not even know you lost your mucus plug oh yea when do you usally drop

I lost my mucus plug during the night, I woke up at like 5 am..and at 7 contractions started....You can lose the plug a week before or even earlier. you can start dialating and not be in labor. I didnt dialate at all until i was in labor..and i still barely dialated lol

There is no surefire answer. If you want to be checked they will start checking usually around 36 weeks. But it is completely unnecessary, increases your risk of infection and AROM (artificial rupture of membranes) and your "dilation" tells you absolutely nothing. You can lose your mucous plug at any point and time. You could lose it now and not go into labor for another 7 weeks or you could lose it and go into labor within a few hours or you could be like me and not lose it until you start pushing your baby out after a 25 hour labor (didn't lose plug til AFTER labor started with both kids). Your mucous plug can also regenerate. As for dropping (baby engaging in pelvis, not the outward "dropping" of your stomach), that is another thing that varies. I didn't drop with my son til after labor started. My daughter dropped 2 weeks before I went into labor. It is all different for every woman and every pregnancy.

I got my memebranes stripped at 36 weeks 6 days, my doctor took my mucous plug out for me..... I had my son 4 days later... My friend's started to come out 2 weeks before she had her son... Everyone is different... Babies will come when they want too.